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Hipfish IP Services - Patents & Trademarks

Name: Hipfish IP Services - Patents & Trademarks
Address: Mackay, QLD, 4740, AU
Telephone: +61407080122

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Assisting inventors, innovators with Intellectual Property & how to protect their ideas & their inte Hipfish IP Services, Australia.

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Inventors, innovators & business owners need to know about intellectual property & how to protect their ideas & their intellectual assets. Trade Secrets, patents, designs, copyright, trade marks, circuit layout rights & plant breeders rights are IP rights. Ownership of IP rights is the legal recognition & reward you receive for your creative effort. Patenting & getti

ng your invention to market can be very rewarding, yet it's a minefield for the inexperienced. The best outcome for you, the inventor, is to get your idea into the market & making a profit. We know that your creativity & hours of hard work are worthwhile! After working with hundreds of inventors to get patent protection & successfully get their product into the market, we know what it takes. We can guide you through the whole process, the most economical way. We assist inventors to minimise the time & money they spend in protecting their invention & trying to achieve market entry.

27/11/2025

AUSSIE INVENTION: 1906: surf life-saving reel; 1912: surf ski; and 1927: Speedos

Australia has a beach culture like no other country, so it's unsurprising that many of our innovations revolve around it. On 23 December 1906, surfer Lester Ormsby demonstrated the reel, to which a rescuer could be harnessed in order to battle dangerous surf more safely.

In 1912, Jack and Harry McLaren invented the surf-ski, a kind of lightweight, one-man kayak for quickly and efficiently navigating the surf.

In 1927, Australian underwear manufacturer Speedo introduced its first line of racing swimwear — declared somewhat racy at the time, but positively tame compared to the budgie smugglers that would come later.

One of the first people rescued using the surf life-saving reel was a nine-year-old boy on 2 January 1907. Later on, he himself would become one of the leading pioneers in the field of aviation. His name was Charles Kingsford-Smith.

20/11/2025

AUSSIE INVENTION: 1911: tank

In 1911, Adelaide-born Lancelot Eldin de Mole was struck with the idea for an armoured vehicle that ran on treads. He sent sketches and descriptions of his design to the British War Office … only to be informed in June 1913 that his idea had been rejected. When in 1916 an inferior (in de Mole's opinion) tank was introduced, the engineer realised that he had been passed over. A British royal commission later said that de Mole's design "had made and reduced to practical shape, as far back as the year 1912, a brilliant invention which anticipated, and in some respects surpassed, that actually put into use in the year 1916", but he was never formally acknowledged as the tank's inventor.

13/11/2025

AUSSIE INVENTION: 1911: rotary clothes hoist; and 1948: Hills Hoist

Everyone thinks of the Hills Hoist when they think of the Australian rotary clothes hoist, but the first rotary hoist was actually patented by Melbourne resident Gilbert Toyne in 1911; he was to patent three more designs by 1926. It was his all-metal clothes hoist with an enclosed wheel-and-pinion winding mechanism that formed the basis for other designs — including that of Lance Hill, who patented the exact same design in 1948, after Toyne's patent had expired.

06/11/2025

AUSSIE INVENTION: 1874: underwater torpedo

Melbourne watchmaker and mechanical engineer Louis Brennan invented the underwater torpedo at just 22 years of age. The torpedo had two propellers, driven by two counter-rotating screws that were, in turn, driven by the unwinding motion of two fine wires. The torpedo was also steered by these wires, which connected back to a steam engine for onshore or shipboard operation.

30/10/2025

AUSSIE INVENTION: 1889: electric drill

Melbourne City Council's first electrical engineer, Arthur James Arnot, patented the world's first electric drill in 1889. It wasn't the nifty handyman-sized version shown above, though; Arnot's drill was designed primarily for excavating oil and coal.

23/10/2025

AUSSIE INVENTION: 1894: powered flight

After discovering that curved surfaces are more aerodynamic than flat ones, Lawrence Hargrave invented the box kite, the cellular construction of which was more stable than the previous monoplanes. On 12 November 1894, he strapped four box kites together with a compressed air engine, also of his own invention, tethered it to the ground with piano wire and managed to fly the short five metres that changed aviation history.

16/10/2025

AUSSIE INVENTION: 1902: notepad

You know those ideas that seem small but, when you think about it, had enormous repercussions? JA Birchall of Tasmanian stationery company Birchall was the first person to take loose sheets of paper, cut them in half, back them with cardboard and glue the top edge. He sold them as the Silvercity Writing Tablets, and the idea went on to give rise to none other than the humble paperback book binding, enabling the booming new genre of pulp novels.

09/10/2025

AUSSIE INVENTION: 1906: feature film

The first ever full feature-length film was made by Australians, and shot and shown in Australia. The Story of the Kelly Gang was written and directed by Charles Tait, and co-starred his wife, children and brothers. It ran to just over 60 minutes, and cost only £1000 to make. It was deemed a commercial success, bringing in around £25,000 to its four producers.

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Getting your invention patented and into the market can be very rewarding, yet it's a minefield for the inexperienced.

The best outcome for you, the inventor, is to get your idea into the market & making a profit. We know that your creativity & hours of hard work are worthwhile!

After working with hundreds of inventors to get patent protection & successfully get their product into the market, we know what it takes.

We can guide you through the process in the most economical way.

We can assist you to minimise the time & money you spend in protecting your invention & trying to achieve market entry.

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